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W. FOWLES.

WASHING MACHINE. N0. 382,149. Patented May 1, 1888.

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WARREN FOWLES, OF MEXICO, MISSOURI.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 382,149, dated May 1,1888.

Application filed June 30, 1887. Serial No. 242,995. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARRENFOWLES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Mexico, in the county of Au'drain and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVashing-Machines;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which itappertains to make and use the same.

Figure l is a perspective view of the cylinder,- Fig. 2, a perspectiveview of a piece of the cylinder, showing enlarged the raised edge andflaring lip of one of the corrugated openings. Fig. 3is a cross-sectionof Fig. 2.

This device belongs to that class of washingmachines usually calledcylinder or rotary, and the novelty consists in the slitted corrugationsor raised mouths in the circumference and at the sides, whereby areafforded openings for the induct and educt of water, and at the sametime the metal is stiit'ened, all as will now be more. fully described,reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, A denotes the cylinder of any ordinary washing-machineof this class. It is provided, as usual, with a hinged part, a, throughwhich the clothes are put into or re moved from it,which portion can belocked or fastened when desired.

In the periphery of the cylinder and in its sides are the openings B.These are made by punching out from theinside or in any suitable way.Thus the edge or lip 11 at one side of the opening is raised up, and onthe other side the edge or lip b is made slightly dishing or concave.Between these two edges an opening for induct and educt of wateris thusprovided. Usually it is preferred to make these openings of crescentshape, as being best adapted for the uses to which their flaring lip oredge 12 is put; but this shape is not absolutely necessary. As

the edges 7) b are both bent in thegeneral direction of their length,there is produced a sort of stiffening feature in the structure. 45

These openings may be made of any suitable shape or size and can beplaced regularly or irregularlyin the cylinder. In such cylinders asonly revolve, the openings are so made that the flaring lip will pointinthe direction of the revolution. In this way thelip as it meets thewater acts as a mouth to catch the water and forceit into theinside.Thus the several incoming currents, streams, or jets of water, or Waterand steam,will have some considerable force, and tend to aid greatly inacting upon the garments being washed.

In washing-machines where the clothes-cylinder only oscillates, theflaring lip of one part of the months may point in one direction, andthose on the other portion of the machine may point in the opposite.Thus one-half of the openings will forcein the water when the machine isoscillated in one direction, and the other half will act in like mannerduring the opposite movement of the cylinder.

On the side opposite the incoming flow of water is afforded'sutficientegress for water through the openings B in that part of the cylinder.

Having now described my invention,whatI consider new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The washing'machine cylinder A, having openings B inits periphery andsides, each of which openings has a raised-edge lip, b, and a flaringand concave-edge lip, 12, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WARREN FOWLES.

Witnesses:

G. W. GALLOWAY, JNo. A. MOIN'IIRE.

